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plants for feeding cattle : for them dung and 

 manures are particularly ufeful, becaufe they 

 promote a great luxuariancy in thefe plants, 

 which is much for the farmer's profit : but a 

 luxuriancy in wheat, and other corn, is fb far 

 from being beneficial, that it is often hurtful, 

 producing much ftraw, and but little good 

 corn ; fuch grofs crops are alfo the moft liable 

 to diftempers, and to be blighted and lodged. 

 This may be faid in general of all plants cul- 

 tivated for feed; and may be obferved alfo in 

 gardens. 1 have cultivated radifhes in a rich 

 foil, which have grown remarkably large, 

 have fpread greatly, and continued all the lea- 

 fbn to produce many bloflbms and pods, but 

 not one ripe feed. 



The above Norfolk farmer's two fields of 

 wheat (hews the difference of profit of tillage 

 and manure. One that produced but twenty 

 bufhels of wheat pef acre, was more pro- 

 fitable to him, than thirty-two bufhels per 

 acre produced by the other. The difference 

 in the two crops, being twelve bufhels per 

 acre, was in a great meafure owing to the 

 dung, whereof the other field had none. But 

 farmers mould confider, not only the crops, 

 hut the expence attending them. The two 

 ploughings extraordinary might coft about eight 

 or ten (hillings, or the value of two bufheh 

 of wheat, which being djducled from the 

 other greater crop, there remains ttn bu(hei* ; 



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